From next season, the transfer window will close in England at 5pm the Thursday before the 1st game of the season.Purchases only - international windows still mean foreign clubs can buy premier league players after our window has closed.

The only thing the premier league can do is refuse to register players, cant stop other associations from doing so (which is why Turkish clubs are still able to sign premier league players for another 2 days)

Why can't we have the domestic transfer window closing as per this change AND stay in line with everyone else for foreign transfers so English/Welsh clubs can still buy and sell from overseas after their permission to trade between themselves was over?

it's a bit like saying it closes on x day but is actually still open until Y day...

just get rid of it all together for me....another European idiotic idea...

anyone want a straight banana ?

The difference would be that as of now PL teams can still have their players distracted and perhaps eventually bought by foreign clubs after their own permission to purchase has ended. We might as well start by fixing the domestic business without penalising our own league when dealing with overseas.

Think it's daft tbh but in a way I can see this impacting the top teams most (and therefore benefiting us?). The big players from the top clubs seemingly move abroad or are more often linked to teams abroad wheras the middle and lower teams best players get cherry picked from the top clubs in the league. I'm merely basing that on stuff that's popped up in my head, this might not necessarily be the case**.

I also think they've picked the worst Summer to start this, what with the World Cup being on

**Liverpool's top player's in recent memory (Suarez and Coutinho)Ronaldo went abroad, De Gea is normally linked with foreign teamsHazard linked with teams abroad

Wheras likes of us normally lose our top players to better teams in our league - Lukaku, Fellaini, Arteta, etc (When did one of our best players last leave us for a foreign team? Gravesen?)

Sanchez and Matic, Torres, RVP are rare examples of a top English team's player moving (or potentially moving) to another top team

From next season, the transfer window will close in England at 5pm the Thursday before the 1st game of the season.Purchases only - international windows still mean foreign clubs can buy premier league players after our window has closed.

The transfer window was enforced in 2002 in direct response to EC discussions.

Ok, the EU has only really been called that since the Lisbon treaty in 09.But the EU as the entity all these little Englanders dislike is the same thing since the EC was created in the Maastricht treaty in 93 (or the EEC since Rome in 58).It is definitely just semantics between them all from the UK position really.

would have stopped Stones crying in motorway service stations instead of focusing on his game, and would have stopped us playing Joleon Lescott in a terrible game and blaming him for the result despite him being one of our best players on the day

The Italian teams are up for closing the window earlier as well.Its going to be a bit risky if the other big leagues don't follow suit, but then they would also have to all agree to start their seasons at the same time.